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{Since the Heavenly Trade Is the Best Trade…
Exhortation to Good Traders in Christianity
Advice: Lay Out for God
To Lay Out for God Is Proof of Your Love for God}
In addition, laying out for God is a proof of your love for God. “Therefore show to them, and before the churches the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf” (2 Corinthians 8:24 NKJV). “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20 ESV). By true charity to your poor brethren, you show evidence of your love for God, and that makes all your true and needed mercies secure.
This is also pleasing to God. “But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you have sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God” (Philippians 4:18 NASB). Also see Hebrews 13:16; Isaiah 56:4–5.1567 Doing that which is well pleasing to God is surely prosperous.
Then, Christian, if God has first given to you, if you love God, if you want to please Him, if you want to prosper in soul, body, and estate, lay out for God. If you have freely received, freely give. Whatever God has entrusted to you, expend it for Him.
1567“And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased” (Hebrews 13:16 NASB). “For thus says the Lord: ‘To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off’” (Isaiah 56:4–5 ESV).
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